Necklace Comprised of One Troy Ounce (Or, Alternatively, 31.1 Grams) of 14 Karat Gold, in the Form of 14 Karat Tags Culled from Commercially Produced Chains, With the Addition of Internal Rings to Make the Tags Fall Neatly.

materials: 14 karat gold, steel wire, gold tubing.

alternate view, Necklace Comprised of One Troy Ounce (Or, Alternatively, 31.1 Grams) of 14 Karat Gold, in the Form of 14 Karat Tags Culled from Commercially Produced Chains, With the Addition of Internal Rings to Make the Tags Fall Neatly.

materials: 14 karat gold, steel wire, gold tubing. alternate view.

detail, Necklace Comprised of One Troy Ounce (Or, Alternatively, 31.1 Grams) of 14 Karat Gold, in the Form of 14 Karat Tags Culled from Commercially Produced Chains, With the Addition of Internal Rings to Make the Tags Fall Neatly.

materials: 14 karat gold, steel wire, gold tubing.

Necklace Comprised of Nine Hundred and Sixty-Three Commercially Produced Sterling Silver Posts That Have Been Hammered, Drilled, and Strung on Steel Wire.

materials: sterling silver posts, steel wire, sterling silver tubing.

detail, Necklace Comprised of One Troy Ounce (Or, Alternatively, 31.1 Grams) of 14 Karat Gold, in the Form of 14 Karat Tags Culled from Commercially Produced Chains, With the Addition of Internal Rings to Make the Tags Fall Neatly.

materials: 14 karat gold, steel wire, gold tubing.

alternate view, Necklace Comprised of Nine Hundred and Sixty-Three Commercially Produced Sterling Silver Posts That Have Been Hammered, Drilled, and Strung on Steel Wire.

materials: sterling silver posts, steel wire, sterling silver tubing.

detail, Necklace Comprised of Nine Hundred and Sixty-Three Commercially Produced Sterling Silver Posts That Have Been Hammered, Drilled, and Strung on Steel Wire.

materials: sterling silver posts, steel wire, sterling silver tubing.

detail, Necklace Comprised of Nine Hundred and Sixty-Three Commercially Produced Sterling Silver Posts That Have Been Hammered, Drilled, and Strung on Steel Wire.

Unbleached Muslin- Fifty Six Inch Long by One Inch Wide, Embroidered With the Artist’s Own Hair; The Loss of Which is Caused By the Condition Known as Trichotillomania, in Which the Sufferer is Compelled to Pull Out One’s Own Hair.

Hair Selection and Preparation: All Hairs Pulled out Are Collected, Sorted According to Length, and the Shorter Lengths Discarded. The Hairs Are Then Washed, Conditioned, And Dried. !!

The Number of Hairs used per Needle Averaged About Twenty (20) - Although as Few as Twelve (12) or as Many as Forty (40) Would be Used to create Diverse Effects. Each Needle Threaded With Hair Resulted in Less Than a Dozen Stitches, Due to the Length of Available Hair.

Ring in the Shape of the Caudate Nucleus Comprised of Multiple Types of Prong Settings in Three Different Types of Silver Alloys, of Which One Third Were Hand Fabricated, One Third Were Cast and the Remainder Were of Mass Manufacture, 2012

Nickel Silver, Sterling Silver, Sterling- Fine Silver Alloy

Ring in the Shape of the Caudate Nucleus, Detail.

Fifty Foot, Bi-Metal Chain, Each Link Representing One of the Twenty Six Letters of the English Alphabet Plus Punctuation (Each Represented in Their Own Material for Clarity), Detailing the Inner Monologue of the Trichotillomaniac, 2012

Brass, Copper.

Trichotillomaniac’s Inner Monologue Chain

Fifty Foot Chain, Each Link Representing a Letter of the Alphabet Plus Punctuation.!

“I Cannot Stop Pulling My Hair. I Can’t Help Myself. I Can’t Stop Myself. I Cannot Help Myself. I Cannot Stop Myself.” (and) “I am So Goddamned Tired of This Shit. No Matter What I Say, People never Understand, No Matter How Hard I Try to Explain. Why Can’t you Understand? This Is Beyond My Control. It’s Not a Matter of Willpower. I Most Certainly Do Not Lack Self Control. Fuck You. How Dare You Insinuate That This is a Personal Failing or Weakness. This Has Been a Constant Struggle For Me My Entire Life.” (and) “People Don’t Realize How Exhausting It Is. Pretending to Be Normal Is Totally Fucking Exhausting. I’m Worn Out From Acting ‘Normal’. I’m Sick of Having to Feign Normalcy.” (and) “I Can Say It’s Related to Tourette’s, That It’s a Part of the Brain Misfiring, That It May Be an Inherent Grooming Behavior Gone Haywire. I Can Go Into Excruciating Detail About OCD Research and the Science Behind It. In Short, I Tell Them It’s a Real Medical Condition. In Other Words, a Disease. It’s In the Fucking DSM. It’s Real. Inevitably, After All This, People Always Ask “Why Don’t You Just Stop?”.!

Materials: brass, copper.!

Three Collars About Alignment:

Two Thousand, Seven Hundred and Twenty One (2,721) Commercially Manufactured Sterling Silver Earring Posts, (3/8”x .029”) Arranged in Such a Manner That All of the Carat Stamps (.925) Are Lined Up. It is Noteworthy to Mention That Although the Earring Posts Are Machine Made, They are Not All The Exact Same Length (There is a Plus or Minus Tolerance of Approximately .5 mm) Consequently Irregularities Occur in the Exterior Shapes.

Materials: sterling silver.

2013

Three Collars About Alignment:

Two Thousand, Seven Hundred and Twenty One (2,721) Commercially Manufactured Sterling Silver Earring Posts, (3/8”x .029”) Arranged in Such a Manner That All of the Carat Stamps (.925) Are Lined Up. It is Noteworthy to Mention That Although the Earring Posts Are Machine Made, They are Not All The Exact Same Length (There is a Plus or Minus Tolerance of Approximately .5 mm) Consequently Irregularities Occur in the Exterior Shapes.

Materials: sterling silver.

Three Collars About Alignment:

Two Thousand, Seven Hundred and Twenty One (2,721) Commercially Manufactured Sterling Silver Earring Posts, (3/8”x .029”) Arranged in Such a Manner That All of the Carat Stamps (.925) Are Lined Up. It is Noteworthy to Mention That Although the Earring Posts Are Machine Made, They are Not All The Exact Same Length (There is a Plus or Minus Tolerance of Approximately .5 mm) Consequently Irregularities Occur in the Exterior Shapes.

Shoulder-Perched Brooch Comprised of Various Thicknesses Ranging From Fifteen Thousandths of an Inch to Sixty Thousandths of an Inch, In Five Thousandths of an Inch Increments, Three Metals, And Various Mementos of Times Past and Loves Lost, As Represented by the Mundane Objects Set Inside, 2012

The Variations in Casting Are Dependent on the Process. An Original Basket Setting is Made, Then a Sprue (a.k.a. a Gate- in this Case, A Thirty Secondth of an inch (1/32) Brass Rod is Soldered On. Then a Flexible Rubber Mold is Made of the Setting. Then a Relatively Flexible Wax is Injected Into the Mold, Resulting in a Copy. This Process (the Wax Injection) is Repeated Hundreds of Times in Order to Acquire the Needed Amount of Settings. As There are Often Incomplete Injections, as Well as Casting Failures, One Must Make More Than the Desired Amount. Then the Wax Settings are Affixed to a Central Pole of Wax that Itself is Affixed to a Rubber Base. The Configuration of the Settings to the Central Pole is Commonly known as a Tree, as It Resembles a Tree with Branches. Then a Flask- a Cylindrical Section of Steel is Inserted Into the Rubber Base So That It Completely Envelops the Tree. Then a Silica Based Plaster Is Poured Over the Wax Tree When is Then Kiln Fired for a Period of Eight Hours Increasing Gradually to a Temperature of Fourteen Hundred Degrees. This Process Burns Out All Traces of the Wax. The Flask is then Inserted Into a Centrifuge, and the Required Amount of Metal Heated With an Oxygen Acetylene Torch Until Molten. The Centrifuge Is Then Deployed, Forcing the Metal Into the Negative Space in the Mold Caused by the Burnt Out Wax. Then the Entire Flask is Quenched in Water, Boiling Off the Plaster. This Results in a Metal Copy of the Wax Tree. Then All of the Settings are Cut off Using a Two Ought (2/0) Sawblade, Filed, Sanded and Polished.

Materials: sterling silver, wood, paint.

2013.

Three Hundred and Seventeen Cast Sterling Silver Basket Settings Arranged in Order of Best to Worst, Moving from Left to Right, Based on Four Criteria:

The Variations in Casting Are Dependent on the Process. An Original Basket Setting is Made, Then a Sprue (a.k.a. a Gate- in this Case, A Thirty Secondth of an inch (1/32) Brass Rod is Soldered On. Then a Flexible Rubber Mold is Made of the Setting. Then a Relatively Flexible Wax is Injected Into the Mold, Resulting in a Copy. This Process (the Wax Injection) is Repeated Hundreds of Times in Order to Acquire the Needed Amount of Settings. As There are Often Incomplete Injections, as Well as Casting Failures, One Must Make More Than the Desired Amount. Then the Wax Settings are Affixed to a Central Pole of Wax that Itself is Affixed to a Rubber Base. The Configuration of the Settings to the Central Pole is Commonly known as a Tree, as It Resembles a Tree with Branches. Then a Flask- a Cylindrical Section of Steel is Inserted Into the Rubber Base So That It Completely Envelops the Tree. Then a Silica Based Plaster Is Poured Over the Wax Tree When is Then Kiln Fired for a Period of Eight Hours Increasing Gradually to a Temperature of Fourteen Hundred Degrees. This Process Burns Out All Traces of the Wax. The Flask is then Inserted Into a Centrifuge, and the Required Amount of Metal Heated With an Oxygen Acetylene Torch Until Molten. The Centrifuge Is Then Deployed, Forcing the Metal Into the Negative Space in the Mold Caused by the Burnt Out Wax. Then the Entire Flask is Quenched in Water, Boiling Off the Plaster. This Results in a Metal Copy of the Wax Tree. Then All of the Settings are Cut off Using a Two Ought (2/0) Sawblade, Filed, Sanded and Polished.

Materials: sterling silver, wood, paint.

Three Hundred and Seventeen Cast Sterling Silver Basket Settings Arranged in Order of Best to Worst, Moving from Left to Right, Based on Four Criteria:

The Variations in Casting Are Dependent on the Process. An Original Basket Setting is Made, Then a Sprue (a.k.a. a Gate- in this Case, A Thirty Secondth of an inch (1/32) Brass Rod is Soldered On. Then a Flexible Rubber Mold is Made of the Setting. Then a Relatively Flexible Wax is Injected Into the Mold, Resulting in a Copy. This Process (the Wax Injection) is Repeated Hundreds of Times in Order to Acquire the Needed Amount of Settings. As There are Often Incomplete Injections, as Well as Casting Failures, One Must Make More Than the Desired Amount. Then the Wax Settings are Affixed to a Central Pole of Wax that Itself is Affixed to a Rubber Base. The Configuration of the Settings to the Central Pole is Commonly known as a Tree, as It Resembles a Tree with Branches. Then a Flask- a Cylindrical Section of Steel is Inserted Into the Rubber Base So That It Completely Envelops the Tree. Then a Silica Based Plaster Is Poured Over the Wax Tree When is Then Kiln Fired for a Period of Eight Hours Increasing Gradually to a Temperature of Fourteen Hundred Degrees. This Process Burns Out All Traces of the Wax. The Flask is then Inserted Into a Centrifuge, and the Required Amount of Metal Heated With an Oxygen Acetylene Torch Until Molten. The Centrifuge Is Then Deployed, Forcing the Metal Into the Negative Space in the Mold Caused by the Burnt Out Wax. Then the Entire Flask is Quenched in Water, Boiling Off the Plaster. This Results in a Metal Copy of the Wax Tree. Then All of the Settings are Cut off Using a Two Ought (2/0) Sawblade, Filed, Sanded and Polished.

Materials: sterling silver, wood, paint.

detail, Three Hundred and Seventeen Cast Sterling Silver Basket Settings Arranged in Order of Best to Worst, Moving from Left to Right, Based on Four Criteria.

detail, Three Hundred and Seventeen Cast Sterling Silver Basket Settings Arranged in Order of Best to Worst, Moving from Left to Right, Based on Four Criteria

detail, Three Hundred and Seventeen Cast Sterling Silver Basket Settings Arranged in Order of Best to Worst, Moving from Left to Right, Based on Four Criteria

detail, Three Hundred and Seventeen Cast Sterling Silver Basket Settings Arranged in Order of Best to Worst, Moving from Left to Right, Based on Four Criteria

detail, Three Hundred and Seventeen Cast Sterling Silver Basket Settings Arranged in Order of Best to Worst, Moving from Left to Right, Based on Four Criteria

detail, Three Hundred and Seventeen Cast Sterling Silver Basket Settings Arranged in Order of Best to Worst, Moving from Left to Right, Based on Four Criteria